sustainability

[ suh-stey-nuh-bil-i-tee ]

/ səˌsteɪ nəˈbɪl ɪ ti /

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noun

the ability to be sustained, supported, upheld, or confirmed.

Environmental Science. the quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and thereby supporting long-term ecological balance: The committee is developing sustainability standards for products that use energy.

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Origin of sustainability

sustain + -ability

Words nearby sustainability

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How to use sustainability in a sentence

I think we’ve been okay at bringing women and minorities into the firm, but I don’t think we’ve created the environment that creates the sustainability of them wanting to be there.
Citigroup names Jane Fraser CEO, shattering Wall Street’s glass ceiling|Maria Aspan|September 10, 2020|Fortune
She studies sustainability — how to use resources so they are available in the future — at Arizona State University in Tempe.
A single chemical may draw lonely locusts into a hungry swarm|Jonathan Lambert|September 7, 2020|Science News For Students
Solarpunk is gorgeous by most measures and serves as an umbrella term for an aesthetic and ideology that emphasizes biomimicry, greenery, and mind-blowing architectonic structures built to enable sustainability and self-sufficiency.
Solarpunk Is Growing a Gorgeous New World in the Cracks of the Old One|Carin Ism|September 6, 2020|Singularity Hub
Thrilling recently launched a collaboration with Banana Republic to promote sustainability in fashion.
The CEO striving to make vintage, secondhand clothing as popular as fast fashion|Rachel King|September 6, 2020|Fortune

It’s by including people of color in sustainability conversations that Matthews thinks that efforts to improve infrastructure will make a difference.
Uncharted Power’s Jessica O. Matthews has a plan to revive America’s crumbling infrastructure|Brooke Henderson|August 23, 2020|Fortune
The next step toward greater sustainability would be to turn those solar canopies into fueling stations.
Paved Paradise|The Daily Beast|September 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But increasingly, when it comes to energy use and sustainability, parking lots are actually becoming part of the solution.
Paved Paradise|The Daily Beast|September 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Michelle also advanced an aggressive policy agenda combining accountability with parent choice and fiscal sustainability.
A Letter of Thanks to Michelle Rhee|Dmitri Mehlhorn|August 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The CleanTech Open Global Forum, where they won the National Sustainability award in 2013, has lauded his proprietary system.
America’s Next Agricultural Revolution Will Happen Indoors|Sarah Kunst|April 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But the New Year is also about planning ahead, refining a longer-term vision of balance and sustainability.
What to Drink in 2014: 13 Chefs and Critics Picks|Jordan Salcito|January 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST